Back To The Basics

By

Sparknanator

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Twilight Sparkle was in one of the best moods of her life today. While reading a book she found out there was a potion that supposedly makes somepony a year younger, Twilight kept bouncing through town, bouncing even more then Pinkie Pie does, and the lavender mare had been out in the town all day buying everything she needed to make the potion. Twilight was beaming and absolutely giddy, but first she thought it would be a good idea to stop all of her bouncing since ponies were starting to stare "Come on Twilight you are bouncing even more then the day you got your cutie mark" Twilight thought to herself, still Twilight could not wait to get home to her little lab she had set up.

So she could start working on the potion, the whole reason she wanted to make the potion is because a few days prior she had found a few grey hairs while brushing her mane from what Twilight had read, it said that the potion takes a few hours to make and it takes at least twenty four hours to kick in, the only problem that Twilight had found in it is that since it would age her down she would have to grow back into the age that she is currently. Twilight did not mind this, all she cared about was being a year

younger though the directions where specific: if one thing went wrong it could age her back more than just a year. If she mixed the ingredients wrong, everything could backfire and age her back even more than she wants to be. Twilight gulped, not wanting to think of the worst case scenario. Twilight had shown the book to her friends, the only one who was as excited as her about it was Rarity, whom she promised if it worked she would make up another batch and give it to the fashionista "Rarity might be a bit of a drama queen but she is my friend and I can agree with her, grey hairs are not fun to have" Twilight giggled knowing Rarity she thought she had a grey hair.

Twilight had finally arrived at the library throwing the door open she started bouncing inside, once in her humble home she closed the door and locking it before going down to her basement. Twilight turned on a lamp she kept on the table in the library so that way she would have some type of lighting when she came back up Twilight happily trotted down to her basement, turning on the lights when she arrived.

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Twilight had been sitting in her basement for a few hours after mixing together the ingredients of her potion, hoping it would be done soon, Twilight was now spinning around in her chair "Let’s see if I remember this correctly it said the potion will make some kind of noise when it is ready" Twilight said aloud "I wonder what kind of noise it will be?" just as Twilight said that, a loud whining came from the potion. When Twilight looked she saw it was now a pink color "I do not remember it saying that this would make it pink." Twilight shrugged knowing she had read the instructions carefully so she would not mess anything up

“Alright let’s get this over with” Twilight said as she went over the table to look at the potion “Alright Twilight you can do this” Twilight then levitated the vial and drank the pink liquid inside of it. She began to cough “Wow that has a punch to it.” Twilight said with her coughing fit coming to a slow halt “Well the book said it takes twenty four hours to kick in so I have time to kill.”

Twilight trotted back upstairs, leaving her basement, after turning the light off and closing the door the lavender mare looked at her home trying to think of something she could do “Alright so let’s think. I already had dinner so now I need to find something to do.” Twilight taped her hoof on her chin “I could always read a Daring Doo book.” Twilight walked over to one of her many bookshelves, levitating a daring doo from its shelf, smiling as she went up to her bedroom. Twilight turned her bedside lamp on. She made herself comfortable before opening her book. Twilight began reading; it had become a ritual for Twilight to read at least half of a book before she went to sleep.

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Twilight had awoke the next day under her bed sheets “Why is my head hurting” she thought to herself. Twilight kept trying to make her way through the blankets so she could see if the potion she made worked as Twilight kept squirming through her sheets she heard a very familiar giggle.

Twilight immediately knew who giggled, as her head popped out of her blankets she noticed everything looked much bigger than normal yet Twilight felt like she had more energy even more than Pinkie Pie “Something fishy is going on here and I intend on finding out what it is” Twilight thought to herself as she sat on her bed. Twilight still had yet to even notice Pinkie Pie standing next to her bed.

Pinkie Pie just giggled at Twilight “Good morning sunshine.” Pinkie said, poking Twilight on her side causing Twilight to glare at her “Oh calm down you silly foal.”

Twilight looked at Pinkie before shaking her head “She is just being Pinkie Pie” Twilight jumped off her bed walking over to her dresser so she could brush her mane and tail as she does every morning but for some reason everything felt much bigger now that she was on the ground, much bigger than it looked from her bed. Twilight shrugged and tried to access her magic yet all her horn did was spark. Twilight was baffled she hoped that it was just because she was groggy this morning and nothing else.

“Hey Twilight” Pinkie shouted when Twilight turned around she saw Pinkie holding a mirror but the reflection in the mirror was what caught her eye. Twilight was staring at the mirror.

To Be Continued......

Author's Note

Should have put this in the description but long story short Twilight was never Celestia's student she moved to Ponyville out of her own free will Luna was never banished to the moon so Celestia and Luna still control the elements but everyponies talent is the same so Twilight never hatched Spike

Also Shining Armor was never born along with Cadence